Massage Therapy in Integrative Care & Pain Management
MASSAGE THERAPY IN INTEGRATIVE CARE & PAIN MANAGEMENT Published by the American Massage Therapy Association Massage Therapy in Integrative Care & Pain Management | 1 MASSAGE THERAPY IN INTEGRATIVE CARE & PAIN MANAGEMENT Published by the American Massage Therapy Association © 2018 Special thanks go out to the following contributors: BRENT BAUER, MD JOCELYN PYSARCHUK Director, Complementary and Integrative Senior Director, Knowledge Transfer, AMTA Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic DAVE FRENCH NIKI MUNK, PhD, LMT Senior Director, Business Development and Assistant Professor-Health Sciences, Indiana Market Research, AMTA University JAMES SPECKER ANGELA BARKER, LMT, BCTMB Director, Government and Industry Relations, AMTA AMTA Board of Directors RON PRECHT ANN BLAIR KENNEDY, LMT, BCTMB, DrPH Senior Manager, Communications, AMTA Clinical Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina MICHELLE VALLET Deputy Editor, Massage Therapy Journal DOUGLAS NELSON President, Massage Therapy Foundation PATRICIA BARDON Senior Government Relations Specialist, AMTA GUY D’ANDREA Managing Partner, Discern Health JOHN DUNHAM CEO, John Dunham Associates MIKE STOJSAVLJEVICH Director Midwest Operations, John Dunham and Associates JEFF FLOM Chief Operations Officer, AMTA 2 | Massage Therapy in Integrative Care & Pain Management Introduction The American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) has for 75 years worked to advance the massage therapy profession and to foster clinical research on its value and efficacy. A wealth of research has been produced to support the impact of massage therapy for a variety of health issues, especially for pain relief and pain management. Massage therapy has become widely accepted as part of integrative health care in major hospitals and in daily medical practice. With this in mind, AMTA is publishing this document to highlight both the efficacy of massage therapy and its economic validity.
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